Baghdad falls: Iraqis erupt ("Come see, this is freedom! OH PEOPLE! THIS IS FREEDOM!")

Scientific American | April 10 2003 | Paul McGeough, Herald Correspondent in Baghdad

[aruanan]

Funny, they keep talking about the Iraqi people, but all I see are men.

Hmmmm.....

[Hildy]

I don't know why I did this, but I went to the Democratic Underground web site to see what they're saying...and as expected this is the gyst:

"Oh Great, Bush is going to be reelected in a landslide."

Next Poster: "How can you be reelected when you were never elected."

LOL!

[Paradox]

Arab culture are male oriented, no, male Dominated. Iraqi culture is quite westernized, but still, males do most everything there. I have seen women in view, but they are back from the action.

Also, consider that many of these people are Shia, where women definately take a submissive role.

[1Old Pro]

Is Garafolo crawling on broken glass yet?

[dead]

got a link to this? I want to forward it

Yes. This article is from The Sydney Morning Herald, not Scientific American. (If I click off that field too quick after typing “S” and letting it automatically fill in, it always changes to some other source.)

Baghdad falls: Iraqis erupt

[dead]

Funny, they keep talking about the Iraqi people, but all I see are men.

In the interest of equality:

[lawgirl]

But another old man who has spent the past few weeks quietly telling the Herald how much he longed for this day, said simply: "Now we dance."

Party on! What better party could there be than a liberation party? I do hate all the looting though.

Thanks to these guys!

[Beck_isright]

And now, for your viewing and entertainment pleasure, the view from the left from you know where. These comments are edited to be expletive free, fyi:

" Jeez this is about to be a really ugly day!!

Our regular weekly morning long sales meeting has just been temporarily postphoned so that we all can go into our boss's office to watch "history being made"! Our boss just called from his car phone so that he could let us know it is happening and to tell her it was okay to postphone so we all could go watch. I am so incredibly sick of this s***!!!

It's on every news channel

I surfed them all but faux, and it was the same shot, maybe it is staged.

WAR IS OVER... Nonsense!!!

This is shaping up to be a QUAGMIRE!

And there you go fellow FReepers, the war might be winding down in Iraq, but it will carry on at home.

V

[Not Insane]

__...where women definately take a submissive role.__

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Beck_isright]

LOL, see post#28, I stole a few of the gems. They are freaking out worse than the French.

V

[dead]

Next Poster: "How can you be reelected when you were never elected."

I guess that means he can run twice more.

[dead]

Can you imagine living in a world where the toppling of a regime that killed millions of innocents is viewed as a bad day?

I'm so glad I'm not them.

[Kahuna]

I, for one, will not let the "left" ruin this moment. God Bless our coalition forces and leaders!

[appalachian_dweller]

Love it! Love it! Love it. Bush dancing. A great day for FREEDOM!!! God Bless our troops! Well done! Very well done!!!

[Beck_isright]

These are the same morons that thought Stalin was a visionary. I'm just too amused everytime they open their yappers.

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[ArrogantBustard]

"Look, the US is welcome here - but not for long, just for a while to help the next Iraqi government get going. And after that they have no right to stay here; and while they are here they must see us as human beings and not as barrels of oil."

That's the plan, buddy. And if you can put together a government that doesn't support international terrorists, we won't have to come back.

[Beck_isright]

Not ruining mine, I call it comic relief. They are such freakin losers. Can you just imagine the reaction after the first Iraqi elections? This is going to be priceless.

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[Question_Assumptions]

But presuming his era had ended, a white-haired man in the inner city took a poster of Saddam and beat it with his shoe - a traditional insult. Others gathered to spit on or kick the portrait.

One channel (MSNBC or Fox) briefly showed even a better shot than that. An older man got the portrait down about waist level, thrusted his pelvis at the portrait of Saddam as if he wanted Saddam to do a Lewinski on him, and then turned and smiled at the camera. Shown only briefly and I suspect never again...

[Mia T]

url-linked images of shame
copyright Mia T 2003.

[Hildy]

I went back, like a car crash I can't turn away

That's a big statue base. That could take all day and then it could fall and kill people.
Oh goody, maybe here come the marines with a tank, wonder if anybody's got a chain.
That statue would be worth at least $100,000 on ebay.

And one more, I thought a little sanity had reached the board, but what does this last line mean:

... someone was going to dog me for enjoying the statue coming down. Can't a girl find something in these troubled days to be happy about? Hey, I hate the war, and it's becoming more and more apparent that there was never an imminent threat and we probably could have accomplished the toppling of Hussein diplomatically, and patiently, without a shot fired. But watching those hideous statues of Saddam coming down is a great moment for the Iraqis, and an even greater moment for art.

And there, you go.